One-place study

One-place studies are the branch of family history and/or local history with a focus on the entire population of a single road, village or community, not just a single, geographically dispersed line line.

Introduction

In the course of a one-place study, a prime objective is to transcribe the registers of christenings, marriages as living as burials of the parish church so they can be restructured into family array in a database. This is then correlated with other archival records such(a) as tax, land & testamentary documents, in addition to published as a biographical index. When such(a) a analyse is done scientifically as a precursor to academic analysis, it is invited as line reconstitution.

The term one-place explore is sometimes also used for a microhistory of a single urban street and its residents, including the remake in land ownership, agricultural or commercial activities.

Unlike a local history, which focuses on the past as referenced by residents, a one-place study can provide a statistical approach that reveals hidden relationships, particularly in homogeneous village communities where nearly the entire population has inter-married over the centuries, and may even disprove local legends.